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1One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

2Raag Aasaa, Eighth House, Kaafee, Fourth Mehla:

3Death is ordained from the very beginning, and yet ego makes us cry.

4Meditating on the Naam, as Gurmukh, one becomes stable and steady. ||1||

5Blessed is the Perfect Guru, through whom the way of Death is known.

6The sublime people earn the profit of the Naam, the Name of the Lord; they are absorbed in the Word of the Shabad. ||1||Pause||

7The days of one's life are pre-ordained; they will come to their end, O mother.

8One must depart, today or tomorrow, according to the Lord's Primal Order. ||2||

9Useless are the lives of those, who have forgotten the Naam.

10They play the game of chance in this world, and lose their mind to vices. ||3||

11Those who have found the Guru are at peace, in life and in death.

12O Nanak, the true ones are truly absorbed into the True Lord. ||4||12||64||

13Aasaa, Fourth Mehla:

14Having obtained the treasure of this human birth, I meditate on the Naam, the Name of the Lord.

15By Guru's Grace, I understand, and I am absorbed into the True Lord. ||1||

16Those who have such pre-ordained destiny practice the Naam.

17The True Lord summons the truthful to the Mansion of His Presence. ||1||Pause||

18Deep within is the treasure of the Naam; it is obtained by the Gurmukh.

19Night and day, meditate on the Naam, and sing the Glorious Praises of the Lord. ||2||

20Deep within are infinite substances, but the self-willed manmukh does not find them.

21In egotism and pride, the mortal's proud self consumes him. ||3||

22O Nanak, his identity consumes his identical identity.

23Through the Guru's Teachings, the mind is illumined, and meets the True Lord. ||4||13||65||

24Raag Aasaavaree, 2 Of Sixteenth House, Fourth Mehla, Sudhang:

25One Universal Creator God. By The Grace Of The True Guru:

26Night and day, I sing the Kirtan, the Praises of the Name of the Lord.

27The True Guru has revealed to me the Name of the Lord; without the Lord, I cannot live, for a moment, even an instant. ||1||Pause||

28My ears hear the Lord's Kirtan, and I contemplate Him; without the Lord, I cannot live, even for an instant.

29As the swan cannot live without the lake, how can the Lord's slave live without serving Him? ||1||

30Some enshrine love for duality in their hearts, and some pledge love for worldly attachments and ego.

31The Lord's servant embraces love for the Lord and the state of Nirvaanaa; Nanak contemplates the Lord, the Lord God. ||2||14||66||

32Aasaavaree, Fourth Mehla:

33O mother, my mother, tell me about my Beloved Lord.

34Without the Lord, I cannot live for a moment, even an instant; I love Him, like the camel loves the vine. ||1||Pause||

35My mind has become sad and distant, longing for the Blessed Vision of the Lord's Darshan, my Friend.

36As the bumblebee cannot live without the lotus, I cannot live without the Lord. ||1||